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  • What Big Blue’s HashiCorp Buy Might Mean For The IBM i Platform

    May 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Here is a riddle for you, or even two. Why did IBM buy systems software maker HashiCorp for $6.4 billion? And what on Earth, if anything, will this mean for IBM i customers, or even Power Systems customers in general?

    If you want to get a deeper background into HashiCorp, check out the Related Stories link at the bottom of this story for the detailed analysis I have done on the company over at The Next Platform. In the meantime, a short overview of HashiCorp and its tools is in order.

    Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the co-founders of …

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  • Various Power Systems Software Tweaks Besides The TR Updates

    October 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It is fall IBM i software stack refresh week. As we report about elsewhere in this issue, IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 1 and IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 7 came out today, and as is Big Blue’s custom in recent years, other parts of the IBM i software stack also got some nips and tucks and tweaks, too.

    In announcement letter 222-279, we find the usual agglomeration of updates to the PowerVM server virtualization hypervisor, the PowerVC implementation of the OpenStack cloud controller, the virtual Hardware Management Console, and the Cloud Management Console.

    With PowerVM, IBM wanted to …

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